Washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL W. COLE, OF MILLINGTON, MARYLAND.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 21,653, dated October 5, 1858.

To all 'whom t 'may concern.'

Be it known that I, SAMUEL WV. COLE, of h/Iillington, in the county ofKent and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in lashing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the construction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l, represents aperspective view of the machine, with a portion of the fro-nt of the tubbroken away, to show the parts behind it. Fig. 2 represents al plan ofone of the faces of the rubbing disks, showing the arrangement of theblocks or ribs thereon.

My invention consists in the peculiar manner in which I have connectedthe rubbers with a lever, and with the tub, so that the working of thelever, shall give an alternating rotary motion to the rubbers, incontrary directions.

To enable others skilledin the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

A, represents an ordinary tub, across the top of which there is a bar B,and through this bar B passes the shaft or rod C, to which, the lowerwashboard, or rubbing board D, is permanently attached, so that bot-hshaft and washboard shall move together. On the underside of the lowerwash board D, there is a point or pivot which takes into a step on thebottom of the tub, so that the wash boards may not get out of place. Tothe top of the shaft C, there is affixed a lever E, by which it may beturned.

F, is an upper wash board which may rest upon the lower one D, or uponthe clothes between them that are to be washed. To the top of this upperwash board, are hinged at a, a to levers 7), b, which pass up throughslots 0, c in the cross brace or bar B, and their tops d, nl, passthrough holes e, e, in the lever E, said holes being large enough togive said ends CZ, CZ, considerable play therein. In the levers b, b,near where they pass through the cross brace B. there are slots f, j',through which rods z', 1'., pass,

that are fastened to said cross bar. These rods fz', are the fulcra ofthe levers Z), b, and the slots in said levers, allow the upper washboard to rise or lower, for the purpose of introducing and containingmore or less pieces at a time as may be desired.

The two adjacent faces of the wash boards, are furnished with roundedslats, ribs or projections n, which form a rubbing surface or surfacesbetween which the clothes are washed. It will be seen that the washboards may be farther from, or nearer to each other, without affectingtheir rotation from the lever E. lhen the lever E, is moved in thedirection of the arrow I,` the rubbing board D moves in the samedirection, as shown by the arrow 2. But the upper rubbing board E, bysaid motion, is moved in a contrary direction as shown by the arrow 3,and a reversed motion of the lever, reverses the motion of thewashboards, caustheir ribs a to cross each other which with the clothesbetween them effects the washing.

By simply changing the water, the rinsing, and bluing may be done in thesame tub, and by the same operation as the washing'.

This arrangement of parts, and operation, makes a very simple, cheap andeifrcient iashing machine.

Having thus fully described t-he nature and object of my invention, Iwould state that I am aware that two rubbing surfaces moving in contrarydirections have been used in washing machines. This I do not claim, but

What I do claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- Thecombination of the lever E, shaft- C,

and hinged levers 71. with each other, and with the. rubbers D, F, forthe purpose of moving said rubbers in contrary directions at the sametime, and allow the upper rubber to rise and fall to adapt itself to theclothes. The whole being arranged and operating as herein set forth.

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IVitnesses A. B. S'roUGH'roN, THos. H. UPPERMAN.

